No Union with Slaveholders!
February 15, 1861 “The Union formed in 1789 is at last dissolved through the secession, without cause, of six of the slave States, the complicity of the remainder, and the imbecility and perfidy of...
View ArticlePro-Slavery Mobs
February 8, 1861 There is one brief article from Parker Pillsbury, telling of a mob which interrupted an abolition meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and a second letter from Susan B. Anthony, telling of...
View ArticleThe Legislature and Free Speech
February 8, 1861 This article recounts a debate in the Massachusetts House of Representatives over a motion to allow the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society the use of Representatives Hall, in...
View ArticleGarrison’s illness
February 1, 1861 Garrison’s letter indicates that he has been ill eighteen days, and that today’s meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society will be the first of its annual meetings he has...
View ArticleSend in the Petitions
January 25, 1861 An urgent call for people to return signed petitions against Slave-hunting in Massachusetts, to then be laid before the legislature. “Now, while the concessionists are at work… now is...
View ArticleSlave trading
January 18, 1861 “The ship Lesbia, under French colors, (supposed to be the ship Montauk of New York,) was recently taken by a Spanish steamer of war, and brought into Havana, with 900 negroes on...
View ArticleMobocracy at Westfield
January 18, 1861 Charles C. Burleigh writes from Florence, telling of two evenings in succession when he was accosted by a mob when giving anti-slavery speeches. On the second evening, during the...
View ArticleEditor’s illness
January 11, 1861 “The Editor has been too ill to be able to give any attention to the Liberator this week.” The post Editor’s illness appeared first on The Liberator Files.
View ArticleSecession Meetings
January 11, 1861 Virginia, Orange County —- People from this county in Virginia pass resolutions, including: “the cotton states will secede; that their destiny is our destiny; and that Virginia should...
View ArticleThirty Years Completed
January 4, 1861 “We commence a new decade with the same confidence in the principles we espouse, the same assurance of success in the cause we advocate, that we felt at the commencement of our labors,...
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